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authorDave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>2012-05-05 13:34:07 -0400
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2012-05-20 17:38:33 -0500
commitc2fdc38b78d9b83e783ff2ec3f8c4d53e7f45634 (patch)
treebe798a318162416f5e9a5e4b38c86420cf28b1b3 /doc
parentceb23622097bb59ef568fd2565d71148069664c8 (diff)
pacman: support group selection delimited by commas
We support multiple arguments being comma separated elsewhere, so this seems like a natural extension to support in our multiparse selection code. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt
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@@ -70,10 +70,10 @@ Operations
In addition to packages, groups can be specified as well. For example, if
gnome is a defined package group, then `pacman -S gnome` will provide a
prompt allowing you to select which packages to install from a numbered list.
-The package selection is specified using a space separated list of package
-numbers. Sequential packages may be selected by specifying the first and last
-package numbers separated by a hyphen (`-`). Excluding packages is achieved by
-prefixing a number or range of numbers with a caret (`^`).
+The package selection is specified using a space and/or comma separated list of
+package numbers. Sequential packages may be selected by specifying the first
+and last package numbers separated by a hyphen (`-`). Excluding packages is
+achieved by prefixing a number or range of numbers with a caret (`^`).
+
Packages that provide other packages are also handled. For example, `pacman -S
foo` will first look for a foo package. If foo is not found, packages that